Chapter VI are explained by the author’s later investigations.

[137] “Ein Skizzenbuch von Beethoven,” Breitkopf und Härtel, Leipsic, 1865.

[138]

BEETHOVEN’S ESTIMATE OF THE BAGATELLES

Dr. Riemann thinks that Beethoven originally wrote “1802” on the autograph, and that subsequently he, or somebody else, changed the 8 into a 7 and the 0 into an 8. (See the _facsimile_ in Frimmel’s “Beethovenjahrbuch” of 1909); yet the German Editor finds suggestions of Beethoven’s latest style in the “Bagatelles” and calls attention to the fact that Beethoven detected intimations of No. 5 in the set Op. 119 in the Kessler sketchbook. Dr. Riemann’s conclusion is thus worded: “If Ries in his ‘Notizen’ meant these ‘Bagatelles’, he was surely in error. Beethoven’s complaint to Breitkopf and Härtel in the letter of October, 1803, ‘since unfortunately so many unlucky old things of mine have been sold and stolen,’ cannot possibly have referred to them. Beethoven himself thought highly of these ‘trifles’, as is shown by his anger at Peters’s depreciation of Op. 119. it is very likely that Ries meant the Two Preludes in all the Keys (Op. 39), which may have been surreptitiously published.”

END OF VOLUME I

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Transcriber’s Note

Page headers in the original text have been moved above the paragraph to which they relate.

The paragraph beginning “For my Brothers Carl” on p. 354 was printed vertically.

The following printing errors have been corrected:

p. xx “Sympathethic” changed to “Sympathetic”

p. 24 “200 th.”” changed to “200 th.”

p. 70 (note) “_Variations” changed to ““_Variations”

p. 96 (note) “Beethoven’s mother.” changed to “Beethoven’s mother.””

p. 115 “the the hour” changed to “the hour”

p. 135 “bass”).” changed to “bass).””

p. 138 “pianofore” changed to “pianoforte”

p. 141 “these years” changed to “these years’”

p. 202 (note) “continally” changed to “continually”

p. 241 “Hadyn” changed to “Haydn”

p. 258 “neighboring page.” changed to “neighboring page.]”

p. 295 (header) “String Quartet” changed to “String Quintet”

p. 303 “familarly” changed to “familiarly”

p. 321 (note) ““_je la méprisois_” changed to ““_je la méprisois_””

p. 365 “(not complete).” changed to “(not complete).””

p. 368 ““Once when he” changed to “Once when he”

The following possible errors have not been corrected:

p. 31 Schuster.

p. 57 (note) May 23. 1827.

p. 107 _Il Convivo_

p. 231 (for I am

p. 263 an opera--

Inconsistencies in spelling have otherwise been left as printed. They include:

a.m. and a. m.

ballroom and ball-room

contrabassist and contra-bassist

contradances and contra-dances

E-flat and E flat (etc.)

Eleonore and Leonore

footnote and foot-note

Grossheim and Grosheim

Harmoniemusik and Harmonie-Musik

i.e. and i. e.

Industrie-Comptoir and Industriecomptoir

Intelligenzblatt and Intelligenz-Blatt

lifelong and life-long

Nazerl and Natzerl

overhasty and over-hasty

p.m. and p. m.

passageway and passage-way

Pergolesi and Pergolese

rth., rthr., th. and thlr.

subdeacon and sub-deacon

textbook and text-book

thoroughbass and thorough-bass

today and to-day

Tonkünstler-Gesellschaft and Tonkünstlergesellschaft